new year whishes from my friend charlie palmgren
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The whishes my friend dr. Charles Leroy (Charlie) Palmgren send to me and which I've transferred to the members of the Cruciale Dialogen GenootschapTRANSCRIPT
Johan Roels
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These days we are bombarded constantly with news of tribes and nation states in tumultuous violent change and the mass-murder of innocent men, women and children from around the globe. Do guns kill people without people producing the guns and then putting them to use? Would all the murder stop if all the guns were beaten into plow shears and pruning hooks? Or, how long would it be before the cable TV news channels were filled with pundits talking about ways to stop the violence caused by people killing one another with plow shears and pruning hooks?
The seeds of violence and peace take root in the human heart and mind. God's rain falls on both. We have to choose which seed to weed and which seed to feed in order to help it grow to fruition. The fruits of violence and evil are violence and evil. The fruits of love and goodness are love and goodness. We are left individually, as a society and as a global community to choose which fruit we'll fertilize and which one we'll weed out.
If it is true that from good comes good and from evil comes evil, we often do not know which is which until after we see the fruit. Our hindsight is often better than our foresight. It takes insight to know the difference in advance. How many of us can see the oak tree while it is still an acorn? How many of our decisions that seem right at the time we make them prove to be flawed in the long run?
Our challenge is to bring the best each of us understands, speak that understanding in love and listen with humility and openness to the best others bring. Yes, there will be differences. However, differences can divide and they can enrich depending on how we choose to work with them. We can pit our differences against one another or we can seek and invent ways to make them 'mutually supportive' of one another.
We pray that the choices we make in the coming New Year will reflect the desire to embrace differences with the intent of seeing how they can enrich and provide the fruits of peace, love, justice, freedom, joy and goodness.
Pax et bonum,Charlie Palmgren
Nieuwjaarswens van Charlie Palmgren
Happy Holy-days
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